ILM'S TOP 77 ALBUMS of 2010 (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN)

::sigh::

TOO LOW GOD DAMN IT

this was the best record release last year imo

lex how do you feel abt spaghetti western scores?

i like them i guess. i like mariachi touches. i don't mind noisy music, but i am pretty hungover today :/

i kinda forgot about it, i wish i'd voted for it!

xp eh give it a shot then

YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du0OvBTfKW4&playnext=1&list=PL0CB815C1A8CCFCB3

dammit that was supposed to be a link! forgot abt the auto-embed, sorry y'all

put this near the bottom of my albums ballot, glad it got some <3

skip the first track on it and there's nothing I'd call noisy on there (ymmv I guess)

I like SCG but their music has kind of been eclipsed by the other stuff they put out on the Sublime Frequencies label

disagree strongly w/that, nothing on SF sounds like 'Dante's Disneyland inferno"

Have been a fan of the Sun City Girls for years but I'm ashamed to say that I've still not heard that album. Did it get released on CD?

Only thing I've voted for so far is the Sun Araw which reminded me a fair bit of SCG in places.

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64. THE RADIO DEPT. — Clinging to a Scheme (266 points, 11 votes)
P&J: 88th
Pitchfork: DNP

funeral mariachi definitely ranks among their finest work. should have placed higher.

great album! didnt vote for it tho

yes, Funeral Mariachi is now available on CD - nice gatefold mini-LP package. (xp)

when i finally checked out torch of the mystics (which is where the uninitiated are generally told to start) i was underwhelmed.

― call all destroyer, Monday, January 31, 2011 10:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

take another chance on the new one, cad. i like torch, but funeral mariachi is far and away my favorite SCG. was my #1 pick here (and who else's?).

some tracks:

VINE STREET PIANO
BLACK ORCHID
BLUE WEST
HOLY GROUND

love Dante's Disneyland Inferno but it was 14 years ago, and there has been a flood of great stuff coming out of their label, I think 64 releases and counting

voted for sun araw and no age. no age album really grew on me but it took a while.

listened to the sun city girls album once, thought it sounded pretty awesome at first but it's really samey tbh, kinda weird for a band that has so many sounds

i really like that sun city girls track! i love music with so much space in it and i love music that's evocative of deserts, this is both. fantastic feeling of stillness in it.

wow i didn't know the radio dept. would be so big here. there are some cool tunes on that album.

cntndrzr i'll check those out later, thx.

xps -

Dan S, OK I see your point about how the label's where most of their creativity is going these days.

Contenderizer it was my #1 as well, as my good-natured outrage over its placing probably indicates

the radio dept. (along with about half the trax results) makes me think that 2010 was waaaaay more 80s than i'd previously suspected

see also: chillwave

kinda loving "heaven's on fire" though

SCG would've placed top 3 for me, if I had remembered to vote

that and "Video Dept" are by far the best tracks on the album. Made the bottom of my top 25, great ambience but not enough top notch songs for such a short album.

yeah that's basically how i feel about it.

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63. THE KNIFE — Tomorrow, In a Year (270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
P&J: 232nd
Pitchfork: DNP
Spotify: listen

excellent

Liking 2 of the SSG's youtubes posted itt. Moving onto the third now.

that and "Video Dept" are by far the best tracks on the album. Made the bottom of my top 25, great ambience but not enough top notch songs for such a short album.

― skip, Monday, January 31, 2011 11:00 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

"a token of gratitude" is pretty nice, too, but yeah, a bit indistinct.

Am listening to Sun City Girls, very good! Glad that sleeve and contenderizer's #1 made it, Rihanna further absolved. :)

Tomorrow, In A Year is really, really excellent. If I'd voted in March it'd have been my #1.

okay where are sun city girls from?! am just streaming "black orchid" now and was surprised to hear them singing in Malay/Bahasa Indonesia... they're random phrases that don't make that much sense though.

(songs are pretty great too, loving it so far).

Liking 2 of the SSG's youtubes posted itt. Moving onto the third now.

― waka flocka flamini (pandemic), Monday, January 31, 2011 11:06 AM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

third might involve a hurdle, if it's "black orchid". fair warning.

lol xp

they're from arizona originally but have famously mined music from se asia and elsewhere.

okay where are sun city girls from?!

they're from phoenix az but are from lebanese ancestry iirc

xp

lewis's #1?

ah okay. It's kinda hilarious - it definitely sounds like people who have listened to indonesian songs without understanding them, just mimicking the phonetics.

It was 'black orchid' I was moving onto, and hey I really dug it.

okay where are sun city girls from?!

AZ, as said. they are (or maybe were, depending on your view of such things) p much internationalists. one of em runs the sublime frequences label (world music shiz).

formed in Phoenix. the label is now in Seattle I think

it definitely sounds like people who have listened to indonesian songs without understanding them, just mimicking the phonetics.

I think this is otm, you can also hear this approach in "Ben's Radio" off of the same LP.

Listening to The Radio Dept. "Heaven's On Fire" and, while it's a good and catchy little ditty, I'm disappointed it's not a Kiss cover.

The next album is going to make lex so happy...

xxp yeah at least one of the bishops is in seattle now

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62. THE NATIONAL — High Violet (270 points, 9 votes)
P&J: 8th
Pitchfork: 28th
Spotify: listen

ha

jeez all of my votes are ending up in this 4th quintile. The first CD of the Knife is, well, difficult. But after you make it through the first half your hearing has adjusted and what might sound like the nine-minute academic exercises in isolation on the 2nd CD feel like you just put on Body Talk. This is serious electronic pop fronted by people who can actually sing. For all the justified whining about Tallest Man on Earth, this entire countdown is full of Tallest Men on Earth compared to the opera singers on TIAY. Real vocal performances are not something you get to hear in a pop context very often, especially when they involve people who are already so accomplished in the pop realm. I would pay a ton of money to hear this performed live.